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toomey suggested a compromise on background checks. both conservatives and liberals are criticizing the budget plan. speaker boehner said he's impressed with parts of the plan. is this the first step towards an agreement? we're just hours away from a vote on a gun violence bill in the senate. it will allow the debate to begin on the senate floor. it will be the background check compromise from senator joe manchin and toomey. it does not call for checks between family members and neighbors. bipartisan compromise is giving legislation new life. they both have a ratings from the nra. they say it's the right thing to do. >> i'm a gun owner. and the rights that aren sidelined in the second amendment are very important to me personally. my record shows this. i've got to tell you candidly i don't consider criminal background checks to be gun control. i think it's just common sense. if you pass a criminal background check you get to buy a gun. it's no problem. it's the people who fail, criminal or mental health background check we don't want h
toomey suggested a compromise on background checks. both conservatives and liberals are criticizing the budget plan. speaker boehner said he's impressed with parts of the plan. is this the first step towards an agreement? we're just hours away from a vote on a gun violence bill in the senate. it will allow the debate to begin on the senate floor. it will be the background check compromise from senator joe manchin and toomey. it does not call for checks between family members and neighbors....
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and that's where senator pat toomey is right. a wider, stronger background check covering all commercial purchasers of guns is not really about what kinds of guns are out there, and what could be sold, it's about the people out there and who shouldn't have their hands on any gun. and this is where the battle for better background checks stands. right now. can the supporters of gun safety get 50 votes in the senate on the background check, itself? can they get 60 votes to clear a filibuster? can they get the one vote, the speaker of the house, to schedule the vote in the house? can they get 218 votes in the house to actually pass it? then, of course, get the signature of the president to make it law? so these are the numbers. 50. 60. one. 218. and one. five gates to pass through for us to have a stronger background check to become part of the law. pia carusone is former chief of staff to congresswoman gabby giffords and now runs the group, americans for responsible solutions. and nia malika henderson is a political reporter for th
and that's where senator pat toomey is right. a wider, stronger background check covering all commercial purchasers of guns is not really about what kinds of guns are out there, and what could be sold, it's about the people out there and who shouldn't have their hands on any gun. and this is where the battle for better background checks stands. right now. can the supporters of gun safety get 50 votes in the senate on the background check, itself? can they get 60 votes to clear a filibuster? can...
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. >> senator joe manchin is the democrat partner with pat toomey. the west virginia pled with republican colleagues and handful of conservative democrats to help him reach the 60 votes. >> i understand the political stakes for my colleagues. i sim thyself and understand it. >> yet the national rifle association blocked the reform with the key line of attack. >> manchin-toomey would not have stopped newtown. people who steal guns don't submit to background checks. >> it came down to a word for him. montana. meaning that demdeps in swing states are not on board yet. >> you had five democrats who voted no including senator reid. >> he voted no in the end because that enables him to bring it back up. republicans also noting a republican alternative on this, better background checks was blocked by democrats. >> thank you. >> bret: the dow lost 138 today and s&p 500 was down . nasdaq fell 60. still ahead, new concerns over the bird flu. first, the father of one of the benghazi terror attack victims is answers. - demanding answers. she immediately triaged
. >> senator joe manchin is the democrat partner with pat toomey. the west virginia pled with republican colleagues and handful of conservative democrats to help him reach the 60 votes. >> i understand the political stakes for my colleagues. i sim thyself and understand it. >> yet the national rifle association blocked the reform with the key line of attack. >> manchin-toomey would not have stopped newtown. people who steal guns don't submit to background checks....
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to never touch this thing again. >> pat toomey invented the primary from the right, so that would be the final irony. >> is there ever such a thing as the final irony? >> that would be it. >> bob, i want to ask, ben touches on this. this is a long game and not a short game. but there are various schools of thought about how much, if the mansion/toomey bill ends up getting signed into law, how much of a victory that exactly is. and ezra klein today has an analysis. he says not every bill that's an improvement on the status quo is better than nothing. a law that claims to have solved a problem only to prove completely ineffective in the real world can undermine the belief that the problem can even be solved. >> and this is a bill, or at least this, this low-hanging fruit that we're talking about, i think we won't do much of anything. even if it were, even if it were to pass. you know this gun registration, even without the poison pill amendments and that sort of thing. the question becomes, what is your goal. if your goal is to improve public safety, do you want to stop these homicides
to never touch this thing again. >> pat toomey invented the primary from the right, so that would be the final irony. >> is there ever such a thing as the final irony? >> that would be it. >> bob, i want to ask, ben touches on this. this is a long game and not a short game. but there are various schools of thought about how much, if the mansion/toomey bill ends up getting signed into law, how much of a victory that exactly is. and ezra klein today has an analysis. he...
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what is the effect on pat toomey? and will you help him politically, if he is punished for his role in this? >> well it's hard to tell. in terms of the political analysis. i'll leave that to the political scientists, but i was grateful that both joe mansion and pat toomey worked together on one of these issues, the background measure. if that had passed, that would have been significant progress, but i would argue, not nearly enough. because until we have these weapons that should only be used on a battlefield in war. until we get those off the street and until we have a limitation on the number of bullets that one individual can shoot at one time, we're unfortunately going to have tragedies like newtown and other tragedies we've seen over a long period of time. i think the question for me or any united states senator is the following -- have i done enough, by my votes and by my actions to substantially reduce the likelihood that this tragedy or something like it will happen again. if you can answer that in good consc
what is the effect on pat toomey? and will you help him politically, if he is punished for his role in this? >> well it's hard to tell. in terms of the political analysis. i'll leave that to the political scientists, but i was grateful that both joe mansion and pat toomey worked together on one of these issues, the background measure. if that had passed, that would have been significant progress, but i would argue, not nearly enough. because until we have these weapons that should only be...
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pat toomey who put it together with joe manchin. john mccain heroically here. mark kirk of illinois. and another moderate republican, susan collins of maine. now, on the democratic sides, those votes no were no surprises here. mark bagitch of rural alaska. mark pryor of another red state. majority leader harry reid voted no. that's procedural so he can vote to reverse the vote. it's a senate technique. president obama will be making remarks in the rose garden right there at 5:30 eastern, a few minutes from now. casey hunt and howard fineman. casey, you and i have been -- you've been helping me on the phone the last couple of days. it looks to me a pretty dreary result in that it looked like it was moving up before the horror in boston a week or two. i'm not sure, did it ever look to you like it was going to reach 60 and then fell back? or was it never really close enough to 60 to make it? >> the point at which we -- the mood up here said that it could reach 60 was really that vote that they held to start debate on the gun bill. that got more republican votes th
pat toomey who put it together with joe manchin. john mccain heroically here. mark kirk of illinois. and another moderate republican, susan collins of maine. now, on the democratic sides, those votes no were no surprises here. mark bagitch of rural alaska. mark pryor of another red state. majority leader harry reid voted no. that's procedural so he can vote to reverse the vote. it's a senate technique. president obama will be making remarks in the rose garden right there at 5:30 eastern, a few...
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. >> thank you, pat toomey. >> and joe manchin. >> you did what reflects what people want to know. they asked me who voted no and who voted yes. >> there you go. it's on both of our twitter feeds. >> i love your influence on twitter. >> joe, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's time for "morning joe," the always chipper happy "morning joe." stick around for chuck todd. he's got "the daily rundown." >>> a shocking explosion wednesday night in texas. there's a lot to get to on this thursday, april 18th edition of "the daily rundown." we've got the latest on the investigation in boston. the senate gun vote failure. the gang of eight unveiling their immigration bill and mark sanford's comeback complications. we begin with what you just saw there. massive devastation in a tiny city of west, texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded just before 8:00 p.m. last night. it shook the area with the same power as a small earthquake. it sent a mushroom cloud into the sky. the area immediately surrounding the plant was devastated. homes and businesses were flattened for several blocks a
. >> thank you, pat toomey. >> and joe manchin. >> you did what reflects what people want to know. they asked me who voted no and who voted yes. >> there you go. it's on both of our twitter feeds. >> i love your influence on twitter. >> joe, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> it's time for "morning joe," the always chipper happy "morning joe." stick around for chuck todd. he's got "the daily rundown." >>> a...
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pat toomey and i sat done and went through this. tom coburn has worked with me for months. we talked to gun organizations and tried to get their inputs. we looked at everybody. but the bottom line is we didn't want to leave loopholes in the gun shows or internet sales. this is a criminal and mental background check. it does not infringe on your right as a family to transfer guns back and forth. your right as neighbor. it protects the reits of veterans which have not been protected. it gives veterans the rights that they should have. and we have a commission on mass violence and i know that marco said today we should be he looking at the violence which he is is current. the culture of violence that we live with today in our society this puts a commission that basically has experts with guns and mental illness and experts with school safety and video violence. thinking hopefully we can change. >> one stop shopping in that sense. >> yes. >> you met with the sandy hook families earlier this week. a compelling picture. we had video of it earlier. they brought tears to your eyes.
pat toomey and i sat done and went through this. tom coburn has worked with me for months. we talked to gun organizations and tried to get their inputs. we looked at everybody. but the bottom line is we didn't want to leave loopholes in the gun shows or internet sales. this is a criminal and mental background check. it does not infringe on your right as a family to transfer guns back and forth. your right as neighbor. it protects the reits of veterans which have not been protected. it gives...
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senator joe manchin and pat toomey put together a bipartisan bill. they hoped it could get past the senate and it didn't. not today. 54 of the 60 votes needed for passage. the message was clear. a minority of senators, mostly republicans, were more afraid and still are of the nra than they are of the roughly 90% of the american who is support background checks. a short time after the vote, the president stood in the rose garden with newtown families surrounding him and fought back against the bill's opponents. >> but instead of supporting this compromise, the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. they claimed that it would create some sort of big brother gun registry. even though the bill did the opposite. >> casey uncovers capitol hill on abc news and robert fine man, an msnbc political analyst. kasie, you've been helping me understand which way this is going. it went against the unsafety people. after manchin/toomey went down, assault weapons went down even more so. another vote on gun clips. what did that tell you about a potenti
senator joe manchin and pat toomey put together a bipartisan bill. they hoped it could get past the senate and it didn't. not today. 54 of the 60 votes needed for passage. the message was clear. a minority of senators, mostly republicans, were more afraid and still are of the nra than they are of the roughly 90% of the american who is support background checks. a short time after the vote, the president stood in the rose garden with newtown families surrounding him and fought back against the...
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. >> next week the senate is expected to vote on an amendment offered by senators joe manchin and pat toomey to expand background checks to cover unlicensed dealers at gun shows, as well as all online sales. >>> we knew president obama's budget proposal would be divisive. now republican leaders who called repeatedly for entitlement reforms find themselves split on the plan. on wednesday the head of the national republican congressional committee said the president's proposed changes to social security by chaining cost of living increases to the consumer price index are unfair. yesterday, speaker john boehner was forced to react. >> his budget really lays out a shocking attack on seniors if you will. i think he's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major senior organizations on this and republicans as well. i don't see this budget as either on time, adding up, balancing and, further, i think it really does go right at seniors in a way they're going to be shocked coming out of this administration. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. he and i h
. >> next week the senate is expected to vote on an amendment offered by senators joe manchin and pat toomey to expand background checks to cover unlicensed dealers at gun shows, as well as all online sales. >>> we knew president obama's budget proposal would be divisive. now republican leaders who called repeatedly for entitlement reforms find themselves split on the plan. on wednesday the head of the national republican congressional committee said the president's proposed...
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joe manchin and pat toomey let their guard down with their high profile compromise. take a look. >> is this bill what we wanted? no. no. is it what the nra wanted? no. but does it at least help in some small way. >> no. >> no. nothing at all. >> we are confident that this bill will pass the senate and it will then go to the house of representatives where it will immediately get shot down. >> that's right. and that is not a metaphor. no, they will literally throw the bill up in the air and shoot it with a gun. >> pretty good. >> funny script. they don't look the part enough. >> i don't know. i think they did a good job. >>> finally, pop star justin bieber has been the target of an internet target. he left a message at anne frank's house, truly inspiring to be able to come here. anne was a great girl. hopefully she would have been a believer. i don't expect anything less from justin bieber. a belieber is what his fans say. he spent an hour learning about anne frank's life. he hoped his visit would bring awareness to his story. >> now it's official. i officially have to
joe manchin and pat toomey let their guard down with their high profile compromise. take a look. >> is this bill what we wanted? no. no. is it what the nra wanted? no. but does it at least help in some small way. >> no. >> no. nothing at all. >> we are confident that this bill will pass the senate and it will then go to the house of representatives where it will immediately get shot down. >> that's right. and that is not a metaphor. no, they will literally throw...
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we know, of course, pat toomey, lindsey graham, on that list here. these are some of the folks we really have to watch. but to jimmy's point. you have this new york time op ed. the amendment that would allow people who have a concealed gun permit to go to states that have stricter laws. so someone in florida, for example, that has quote/unquote lax laws to take it to colorado, or connecticut. >> i mean, that's a very important point. it is something the nra wants. it is something to watch and see. in the name of compromise, i think everyone has said there will be some thing the nra wants that it might get and some things gun control advocates might want that they can get. >> what is the nra saying that it wants specifically? we know this concealed weapons idea probably will not go anywhere. the only other idea that it seems they've stuck behind would be arming individuals in schools. >> i think we're going to have to see what all the amendments are. the point i was going to make was that long list you cited at the top of the republicans who voted to
we know, of course, pat toomey, lindsey graham, on that list here. these are some of the folks we really have to watch. but to jimmy's point. you have this new york time op ed. the amendment that would allow people who have a concealed gun permit to go to states that have stricter laws. so someone in florida, for example, that has quote/unquote lax laws to take it to colorado, or connecticut. >> i mean, that's a very important point. it is something the nra wants. it is something to watch...
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toomey of pennsylvania and joe menon, a democrat from west. it expands background checks to gun shows and preserving personal deals. >> the nra will try to throw all kinds of amendments at us, and we're going to have to work really hard to prevent them from being added to the bill. so we have to do two things. move the ball forward, and and get some good things done, particularly on background checks. >> now to be clear, some republicans who voted yes today said they were voting yes in order to debate this very important issue. they weren't necessarily voting yes to do more gun control, shep. >> shepard: what are we hearing out of the house of representatives? >> the house speaker does not want to be rushed by his colleagues in the senate. john boehner said the house well review what whatever he senate passed. >> our hearts and prayer goes out to the families of the victims, and i fully expect that the house will act. but to make a blanket commitment without knowing what the underlying bill is would be irresponsible on my part. reporter: so, a
toomey of pennsylvania and joe menon, a democrat from west. it expands background checks to gun shows and preserving personal deals. >> the nra will try to throw all kinds of amendments at us, and we're going to have to work really hard to prevent them from being added to the bill. so we have to do two things. move the ball forward, and and get some good things done, particularly on background checks. >> now to be clear, some republicans who voted yes today said they were voting yes...
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connie, pat toomey, ara with the nra, they have already been fairly vocal, those who are on the right with him. in fact there's discontent. this was what was on cbs earlier. >> do you think the nra will penalize you in some way? >> i don't know, we have had a good relationship over the years, we disagree over this. bob, the chips will fall where they fall, my job is doing what i think is right. >> i know being a fiscal conservative from pennsylvania, swing state r they going to go after his seat now that they are going after manchin? >> who knows whether they go after his seat. but pat toomey has been someone, he hasn't put himself out there as necessarily being -- he is a fiscal guy. this is what he has kind of made his political career on so he decided to step into the fray on this issue and we'll see how it works out for him. >> every lawmaker should hope and pray they have a moment in their career where someone is going to come at them. and this is their moment where he can actually come out and do something that's going to upset his own party? and those opportunities don't happen
connie, pat toomey, ara with the nra, they have already been fairly vocal, those who are on the right with him. in fact there's discontent. this was what was on cbs earlier. >> do you think the nra will penalize you in some way? >> i don't know, we have had a good relationship over the years, we disagree over this. bob, the chips will fall where they fall, my job is doing what i think is right. >> i know being a fiscal conservative from pennsylvania, swing state r they going...
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pat toomey and joe manchin, forged a compromise on background checks for gun purchases. manchin touched by newtown families when he met with them on capitol hill. the legislation would require a background check on purchases at gun shows and on the internet. but would exempt private transactions. it would provide records on criminals and the vie leaptly mentally ill to the national background system. can it pass a republican congress? >> many of them are looking carefully at the legislation. but i don't know in the end how many will support it. >> reporter: many gun owners are not convinced. >> none of the laws will stop crime. the criminals will go on getting their guns like they always have. >> reporter: while the measure is far from the assault weapons ban the president pushed for after the sandy hook shootings. some of the parents of children killed say it's a first step. >> i've seen people working together on both sides to try to do something, to reduce the likelihood of another mother standing in my shoes. >> reporter: briana keillor, cnn, washington. >> our thank
pat toomey and joe manchin, forged a compromise on background checks for gun purchases. manchin touched by newtown families when he met with them on capitol hill. the legislation would require a background check on purchases at gun shows and on the internet. but would exempt private transactions. it would provide records on criminals and the vie leaptly mentally ill to the national background system. can it pass a republican congress? >> many of them are looking carefully at the...
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there is now bipartisan support for background checks coming from nra a-rated senators pat toomey and joe manchin. >> i think we've got a few voting hurdles, and i don't know how they're going to turn out. what we focused on is the right part of this equation, which is can we make it more difficult for dangerous criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to get weapons. >> it's just meant to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them. closing down gun show loopholes, internet sales. >> but several republicans remain adamantly against this. senators ted cruz, mike lee, and rand paul may not filibuster, but instead they might object to every single procedural move made by democrats drawing out debate for days, even weeks. >> in my view for any legislation that is potentially infringing the bill ever rights, taking away our constitutional protections, i think it should be a 60-vote threshold, and that's what i and a number of other senators are asking for. >> but the families of the victims of newtown say they're ready to fight. they've been meeting with senators in wa
there is now bipartisan support for background checks coming from nra a-rated senators pat toomey and joe manchin. >> i think we've got a few voting hurdles, and i don't know how they're going to turn out. what we focused on is the right part of this equation, which is can we make it more difficult for dangerous criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to get weapons. >> it's just meant to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them. closing down gun show...
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the most recent by joe manchin and pat toomey. they want to expand background checks to include online gun sales and purchases at gun shows and exclude sales between hunters, family members and friends. but a different bill up for debate would cover all of those sales. some republicans refuse to go along with it. >> this bill is a clear overreach that will punish and harass our neighbors, our friends and our families. >> reporter: another live look as they are taking role call and they will go ahead and vote on debating the bill. reporting live in washington, kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 8:16. a man from oregon is facing charges after allegedly stalking the families of the victims of the colorado movie theater rampage. this is 45-year-old kevin purrfield. back in late february, colorado police said he was e-mailing, calling and using social media to contact the victims' families. none of the contact we're told was threatening but police say it was unwanted and annoying. he's now facing telephone harassment and stalking
the most recent by joe manchin and pat toomey. they want to expand background checks to include online gun sales and purchases at gun shows and exclude sales between hunters, family members and friends. but a different bill up for debate would cover all of those sales. some republicans refuse to go along with it. >> this bill is a clear overreach that will punish and harass our neighbors, our friends and our families. >> reporter: another live look as they are taking role call and...
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the most recent by joe manchin and pat toomey. they want to expand background checks to include online gun sales and purchases at gun shows and exclude sales between hunters, family members and friends. but a different bill up for debate would cover all of those sales. some republicans refuse to go along with it. >> this bill is a clear overreach that will punish and harass our neighbors, our friends and our families. >> reporter: another live look as they are taking role call and they will go ahead and vote on debating the bill. reporting live in washington, kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 8:16. a man from oregon is facing charges after allegedly stalking the families of the victims of the colorado movie theater rampage. this is 45-year-old kevin purrfield. back in late february, colorado police said he was e-mailing, calling and using social media to contact the victims' families. none of the contact we're told was threatening but police say it was unwanted and annoying. he's now facing telephone harassment and stalking
the most recent by joe manchin and pat toomey. they want to expand background checks to include online gun sales and purchases at gun shows and exclude sales between hunters, family members and friends. but a different bill up for debate would cover all of those sales. some republicans refuse to go along with it. >> this bill is a clear overreach that will punish and harass our neighbors, our friends and our families. >> reporter: another live look as they are taking role call and...
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there's the bipartisan break through on background checks brokered by republican senator pat toomey and democratic senator joe manchin. >> we didn't i fringe on any individual's rights. >> reporter: there's an attempt to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and others on mental health and school safety. >> we want to have a bill that is the boldest common denominator that we can pass. >> reporter: the critical senate vote that blocked a filibuster was viewed as an important step forward by many of the newtown families lobbying lawmakers in washington this week. >> we have been in darkness for 20 years when it comes to gun control, darkness, lies, misinformation. and when people see you, it means much more than when they hear me or anybody else. so we've made a huge difference. >> reporter: but it causes view from house speaker john boehner about how the final gun bill will look. >> my hearts and prayers go out to the families of these victims. and i fully expect that the house will act in some way, shape or form, but to make a blanket commitment without knowing what the underlyi
there's the bipartisan break through on background checks brokered by republican senator pat toomey and democratic senator joe manchin. >> we didn't i fringe on any individual's rights. >> reporter: there's an attempt to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and others on mental health and school safety. >> we want to have a bill that is the boldest common denominator that we can pass. >> reporter: the critical senate vote that blocked a filibuster was viewed as...
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senators pat toomey and joe manchin spent much of yesterday looking to rally the 60 votes needed to pass the measure. the bill suffered a setback when republican senator jeff flake of arizona announced his opposition in a facebook post. mark kelly, the husband of former congresswoman gabby gi giffords may challenge mark kelly. according to sam stein of the huffington there are 52 yes votes for the bill and 40 senators are opposed. all of whom are republicans. just three members of the gop senators toomey, mark kirk and susan collins are breaking with their party. two other republicans senators mccain and ayotte are reportedly on the fence. come on, guys. along with six democrats. >> john mccain sounds like he is moving in the right direction. i think another is kelly ayotte that needs to follow, mark halpern. six democrats on the fence as well. i think, again, mark, i think it's extraordinarily hard for a democrat with any ambitions inside the party to vote no on a basic background check that will stop terrorists from getting their hands on guns without a background check, that will stop
senators pat toomey and joe manchin spent much of yesterday looking to rally the 60 votes needed to pass the measure. the bill suffered a setback when republican senator jeff flake of arizona announced his opposition in a facebook post. mark kelly, the husband of former congresswoman gabby gi giffords may challenge mark kelly. according to sam stein of the huffington there are 52 yes votes for the bill and 40 senators are opposed. all of whom are republicans. just three members of the gop...
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toomey from pennsylvania was, was willing to come and work with a democrat, also a pro-gun democrat, west virgina senator joe manchin, to work on a deal. he is giving cover, i think not so much to republicans but to red state democrats who are pro-gun and don't want to vote for any new gun control. senator toomey is saying that background checks or expanded background checks are not gun controls. rick: yeah. >> this still has a long way to go. getting something out of the senate will be very difficult. getting something out of the house to the president's desk, very difficult. this is a long run ahead but this is a smalls, significant breakthrough. rick: that is my question to you. what does speaker boehner do on the house side? peter king will introduce a expanded background check bill in the house of representatives. is that the one boehner puts forward? do they come up with something different? do they vote on whatever comes out of the senate? >> i have a feeling many members of the house republican conference will want to put their own bill out different than peter king's, one th
toomey from pennsylvania was, was willing to come and work with a democrat, also a pro-gun democrat, west virgina senator joe manchin, to work on a deal. he is giving cover, i think not so much to republicans but to red state democrats who are pro-gun and don't want to vote for any new gun control. senator toomey is saying that background checks or expanded background checks are not gun controls. rick: yeah. >> this still has a long way to go. getting something out of the senate will be...
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he and pat toomey want sales online and at gun shows to be subject to background checks. but some republicans think that plan is far reaching and some democrats in red states don't want to risk losing in the next election. there's another plan that addresses mental health. dianne feinstein's plan will likely be shot down, they say. >> the government should not punish, harass law-abiding citizens in the exercise of their second amendment rights. >> i believe if we can save the life of a single american, we owe it to ourselves to try. >> reporter: but work on gun legislation does not end on today's votes. there are more debates expected in the coming weeks. kyla campbell, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> funeral services will be held for the young u.s. diplomat killed in afghanistan earlier this month. 25-year-old ann smeddinghoff died in a bombing while delivering textbooks in southern afghanistan at a school. she was one of five killed in the attack. secretary of state john kerry met her in afghanistan two weeks before her death. earlier this week, he traveled to chicago to meet
he and pat toomey want sales online and at gun shows to be subject to background checks. but some republicans think that plan is far reaching and some democrats in red states don't want to risk losing in the next election. there's another plan that addresses mental health. dianne feinstein's plan will likely be shot down, they say. >> the government should not punish, harass law-abiding citizens in the exercise of their second amendment rights. >> i believe if we can save the life...
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toomey have now, which is not enough votes to get to 60. jon: this comes against a backdrop of declining support among americans for additional gun control efforts. in january, not long after the attack at sandy hook elementary school, 58% of the americans were saying they favored stricter gun curbs according to one poll. now that number is down to 49%. >> a real problem especially with this particular bill the fact that people are talking about, acknowledging that this bill wouldn't do anything to have prevented the sandy hook massacre and that is a real problem. so we're coming up with a solution to a terrible, terrible event that wouldn't have prevented the event. and so i think that as sort of cooler heads prevail and people start thinking about this stuff and they start reading about the legislation itself, obviously that support begins to wane. if a opponents are able to point out that this wouldn't have done anything to have prevented adam lanza from getting his mother's guns and walking into that school and shooting 20 children. jon
toomey have now, which is not enough votes to get to 60. jon: this comes against a backdrop of declining support among americans for additional gun control efforts. in january, not long after the attack at sandy hook elementary school, 58% of the americans were saying they favored stricter gun curbs according to one poll. now that number is down to 49%. >> a real problem especially with this particular bill the fact that people are talking about, acknowledging that this bill wouldn't do...
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. >> reporter: pat toomey and joe manchin have top nra ratings and forged the deal on background checks. >> some will say you didn't go far enough and some say you went too far. >> reporter: they will need many more to make this happen because there are a number of democrats especially those from red states up for re-election who are not expected to support this. savannah? >> kelly o'donnell on the hill, thank you. >>> let's get to chuck todd, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning. >> this is all, it's very uncertain what's going to happen when this finally gets to a vote. this really depends on these red state democrats that kelly was just talking about. >> it does and there's probably going to be around as many as a dozen republicans who could at least be lobbied to potentially vote for it, but i look at this and it might pass. it might not. it's on an ice edge but where does it go from thhere? >> to the house. >> no vote matters unless they get 70 or 75 votes that's when john boehner says i've got enough political cover i can do this with a mix of republicans and democrats a
. >> reporter: pat toomey and joe manchin have top nra ratings and forged the deal on background checks. >> some will say you didn't go far enough and some say you went too far. >> reporter: they will need many more to make this happen because there are a number of democrats especially those from red states up for re-election who are not expected to support this. savannah? >> kelly o'donnell on the hill, thank you. >>> let's get to chuck todd, good morning, good...
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having president obama and other left-leaping people saying nice things about pat toomey may not be the worst thing about his political future. >> leave it there. thank you all. >>> nbc news just confirmed that the palestinian prime minister salam fayad redesigned. the resignation could affect the west relations with the palestinian authority. in the wake of secretary of state john kerry meeting with fay yad last week, he served as prime ministeryad last week, he prime minister...